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Sweden recognizes Palestinian state

October 30, 2014

Sweden’s new government on Thursday recognized a Palestinian state, joining only two other Western European countries — Malta and Cyprus — that have officially done so. Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said the Scandinavian country had decided on the move because the criteria of international law required for such recognition had been fulfilled. “There is a territory, a people and government,” she told reporters in Stockholm.